BARUCH:
Anglicized form of Hebrew Baruwk, meaning
"blessed." In the bible, this is the name of several characters,
including a faithful attendant of Jeremiah
to whom the apocryphal Book of Baruch is ascribed.

BARUTI:
Egyptian name meaning "teacher."

BARUWK
(בָּרוּךְ): Hebrew name meaning
"blessed." In the bible, this is the name of several characters,
including a faithful attendant of Jeremiah
to whom the apocryphal Book of Baruch is ascribed.

BAXTER:
Old English occupational surname transferred to forename use,
derived from the word b�cestre, "female baker," the feminine form of b�cere,
"(male) baker."

BAYARD:
Old French name derived from the word baie, meaning "reddish brown" or "bright bay color."
In medieval romances, this was the name of a magic horse from the legends of the chansons de geste
("Songs of Heroic Deeds") which was
given to Renaud by Charlemagne. It belonged to the
four sons of Aymon, and had the ability to grow larger
or smaller as one or more riders mounted it.
According to tradition, one of its foot-prints may still
be seen in the forest of Soignes, and another on a rock
near Dinant.

BEAU:
Originally an English pet name meaning "handsome," derived from
the French word, beau, meaning "beautiful." Later, in the 19th
century, it was used as a word meaning "admirer" or
"sweetheart." Its use as a forename seems to have been due to
Wren's novel Beau Geste (1924) and the character Beau Wilkes in
Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (1936).

BEDWYR: Welsh
name, possibly derived
from proto-Celtic *bod(o)-wid-r, meaning "grave-knower,"
inferring that he was "the one who knows (Arthur's) grave." In
Arthurian legend, this is the
name
of a Knight of the Round Table who returned
Excalibur to the Lady of the
Lake after King Arthur's death. Described as being one-handed, he was still
an excellent warrior. In Welsh, his full name was Bedwyr Bedrydant, meaning
"Bedivere of the Perfect Sinews."

BEELZEBOUL (Βεελζεβούλ):
Greek form of Hebrew Ba'al-Zebuwb ("lord of
the fly"), meaning "lord of dung." In the New Testament
bible, this is a name for Satan, the
prince of evil spirits.

BEELZEBUB:
Anglicized form of Greek Beelzeboul, meaning
"lord of dung." In the New Testament bible, this is a name for Satan,
the prince of evil spirits.

BEL-LIT-SHAR-USUR:
According to Robert Dick Wilson, author of Studies in the Book of Daniel,
1917, this is probably the original form of Babylonian Beltesha'tstsar
("Ba'al's prince") the name given to Daniel
by Nebuchadnezzar, meaning
"Ba'al protect the hostage of the king."
Wilson explains that his view "harmonizes with the statement of the
author of Daniel that Nebuchadnezzar called him after the name of his god;
and also with the statements of the first chapter of Daniel, which plainly
imply that 'certain of the children of Israel, even the seed royal, and of
the nobles' were taken to Babylon as hostages for the good behavior of the
king and people of Judah. The taking of hostages in this manner had been a
custom of the kings of Assyria and Babylonia." Another custom was
abbreviating their names by omitting one or more elements. See Bel-shar-usur.

BELOBOG:
Slavic name composed of the elements byelo "white" and bog
"god," hence "white god." In mythology, this is the name of a god of light and sun, the
counterpart of Crnobog ("black god"), the cursed god of
darkness.

BEL-SHAR-USUR:
Contracted form of Babylonian Bel-lit-shar-usur
("Ba'al-hostage-protect-king") which omits the second element,
-lit-, meaning "hostage." According to R.D. Wilson, it coincides exactly with
Aramaic/Hebrew Belsha'tstsar, meaning "Ba'al
protect the king."

BELSHA'TSTSAR
(בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר,
בֵּלְאשַׁצַּר):
Aramaic and Hebrew forms of Babylonian Beltesha'tstsar,
meaning "Ba'al's prince" and Bel-Shar-Usur, "Ba'al
protect the king." In the bible, this is the name of a king of Babylon
at the time of its fall; he to whom Daniel
interpreted the writing on the wall.

BELSHAZZAR:
Anglicized form of Hebrew Belsha'tstsar, meaning "Ba'al
protect the king." In the bible, this is the name of a king of Babylon
at the time of its fall; he to whom Daniel
interpreted the writing on the wall.

BELTESHA'TSTSAR (בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּר): Assyrio-Babylonian
name meaning "Ba'al's
prince." In the bible, this is Daniel
the prophet's Babylonian name.

BENIAMÍN (Βενιαμίν):
Greek form of Hebrew Binyamin, meaning "son of the
right hand." In
the bible, this is the name of several characters, including one of the founders of the
twelve tribes of Israel, the youngest of Jacob's
twelve sons.

BENIAMIN:
Romanian form of Greek Beniamín, meaning "son of
the right hand."

BENIAMINO:
Italian form of Hebrew Binyamin, meaning "son of
the right hand."

Anglicized form of Greek Beniamín from Hebrew
Binyamin, meaning "son of
the right hand." In
the bible, this is the name of one of the founders of the
twelve tribes of Israel, the youngest of Jacob's
twelve sons. His birth name was Benoni,
given to him by his mother who died giving birth to him. Not wanting his son
to bear such an ill-omened name, Jacob changed his name to Binyamin/Benjamin,
because he was the only son born in southern Canaan instead of northern
Mesopotamia.